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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Iran is still not complying with its international obligations, so the United States and its partners have no choice but to tighten financial sanctions. The U.S. is not only looking to the U.N. Security Council, where there is a lot of skepticism that sanctions could work, but is also preparing its own measures to try to isolate Iran from the international financial system.

Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper reported that the son of a founder of the militant group Hamas was a longtime informant for the Israeli security agency, the Shin Beth. The late Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s son, converted to Christianity, moved to California and has written a book about his work for Israel. Avi Issacharoff, the reporter who broke the story, offers his insight.

The war effort in Afghanistan includes contributions from the more than two dozen NATO nations. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says there’s a “new momentum” to the war in Afghanistan — which he partly attributes to better training of Afghan troops. Rasmussen tells Renee Montagne NATO could begin handing over security responsibilities to some Afghan provinces as soon as this year.

Security forces dispersed opposition protests as hundreds of thousands of government supporters massed Thursday in a central square of the Iranian capital to mark the 31st anniversary of the revolution that created the Islamic republic. Authorities clamped down hard to prevent a major show of force by the opposition amid one of the country’s most important political occasions.

Paul Pillar, professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies, talks with Renee Montagne about U.S. efforts to target and kill high-value Taliban targets in Pakistan. Is it working? And what does it accomplish?

President Hamid Karzai tells a global conference in London he envisions the country’s government taking control of security in all 34 provinces by 2015 but that foreign troops could remain for up to a decade.

Aid groups say tens of thousands of Haitian children lost their parents in the earthquake last week, adding to the country’s 350,000 orphans. In response, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is aiming to expedite adoptions already underway by American families. The Joint Council on International Children’s Services Chief Executive Thomas DiFilipo tells NPR how the Haitian adoption process will be affected by the disaster.

Reuters – Industrial conglomerate Tyco International will acquire Broadview Security for $1.9 billion in a deal that brings together two large providers of residential and commercial security in North America, the two companies said on Monday.

Thousands more U.S. Marines will begin to reach the coast of Haiti on Monday, poised to help move aid and maintain order six days after an earthquake devastated the Caribbean island nation. But confusion and growing concerns about security in Port-au-Prince have frustrated efforts to get relief supplies and medical care to increasingly desperate and hungry survivors.

When governments in Europe mandate greater security checks on air passengers, it is often the airports that pick up that tab. But the airports complain that because security is a government responsibility, it should be the state that pays for it.